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Offsetted traces the emergence of the valuation of nature. The book
by the artist duo Cooking Sections unpacks forms of dispossession
that are becoming more common through the protection - not only
destruction - of natural environments. Through a series of artistic
and architectural interventions, Offsetted ties into current
struggles for climate justice worldwide, contesting neoliberalism
as a saviour of its own ecological contradictions. It challenges
conservation models based on 'natural capital,' while proposing new
spatial tactics to de-financialise the environment. Besides a
photographic documentary and the works by Cooking Sections, the
book assembles numerous contributions by interdisciplinary artists
and scientists.
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The Empire Remains Shop (Paperback)
Alon Schwabe, Cooking Sections, Daniel Fernandez Pascu, Jesse Connuck
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"Empire shops" were first developed in London in the 1920s to teach
the British to consume foodstuffs from the colonies and overseas
territories. Although none of the stores ever opened, they were
intended to make previously unfamiliar produce and
products-sultanas from Australia, oranges from Palestine, cloves
from Zanzibar, and rum from Jamaica-available in the British Isles.
The Empire Remains Shop speculates on the possibility and
implications of selling back the remains of the British Empire in
London today. Based on a public installation in London in the fall
of 2016, the book catalogues and develops the installation's
critical program of discussions, performances, dinners,
installations, and screenings hosted at 91-93 Baker Street. The
pieces in this book use food to trace new geographies across the
present and future of our postcolonial planet. Structured as a
franchise agreement, The Empire Remains Shop lays out some of the
landscapes, imaginaries, economies, and aesthetics that future
iterations of the shop would need to address in order to think
through political counterstructures for a better distributed,
hyper-globalized world.
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